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ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 11, 期 21, 页码 15098-15110出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8192
关键词
gut retention time; life history; nutritional plasticity; Onthophagus
资金
- National Science Foundation [1256689, 1901680]
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Forderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung [P2ZHP3_184003, P400PB_199257]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [P2ZHP3_184003, P400PB_199257] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
Research shows that there are significant differences in adult size and development time among different species, as well as notable adjustments in growth patterns and digestive systems. The largest species have the shortest development time, and species display distinct differences in growth trajectories. Additionally, larvae facing challenging diets develop larger midguts and slower digestion compared to those on more nutritious diets.
Age and size at maturity are key life-history components, yet the proximate underpinnings that mediate intra- and interspecific variation in life history remain poorly understood. We studied the proximate underpinnings of species differences and nutritionally plastic variation in adult size and development time in four species of dung beetles. Specifically, we investigated how variation in insect growth mediates adult size variation, tested whether fast juvenile growth trades-off with developmental stability in adult morphology and quantified plastic responses of digestive systems to variation in food quality. Contrary to the common size-development time trade-off, the largest species exhibited by far the shortest development time. Correspondingly, species diverged strongly in the shape of growth trajectories. Nutritionally plastic adjustments to growth were qualitatively similar between species but differed in magnitude. Although we expected rapid growth to induce developmental costs, neither instantaneous growth rates nor the duration of larval growth were related to developmental stability in the adult. This renders the putative costs of rapid growth enigmatic. We further found that larvae that encounter a challenging diet develop a larger midgut and digest more slowly than animals reared on a more nutritious diet. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that larvae invest into a more effective digestive system when exposed to low-quality nutrition, but suggest that species may diverge readily in their reliance on these mechanisms. More generally, our data highlight the complex, and often hidden, relationships between immature growth and age and size at maturation even in ecologically similar species.
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